Architecture, Futurability and the Untimely

Architecture, Futurability and the Untimely

On the Unpredictability of the Past

Edited by Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl
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Publication Date: 22nd March 2022

Although contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a transformative force, this book stresses the need to rethink it through the notion of the untimely. Contributors employ critical concepts and architectural design tools in order to offer experimental and speculative approaches for unknown futures. Read More
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Although contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a transformative force, this book stresses the need to rethink it through the notion of the untimely. Contributors employ critical concepts and architectural design tools in order to offer experimental and speculative approaches for unknown futures. Read More
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The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the future, ensuring that the present is ubiquitous. While contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a transformative force, this book stresses the need to rethink today's complex temporal mechanisms through the notion of the untimely. This concept opens up a whole spectrum of possibilities to go beyond what seems predictable. The contributors to this book employ critical concepts and architectural design tools in order to offer experimental and speculative approaches for unknown futures of architecture.
Details
  • Price: $60.00
  • Pages: 274
  • Publisher: transcript publishing
  • Imprint: transcript publishing
  • Series: Architecture
  • Publication Date: 22nd March 2022
  • Trim Size: 5.83 x 8.86 in
  • Illustration Note: 110 ill., 46 col. ill.
  • ISBN: 9783837661118
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
Author Bio
Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl (Dr.) teaches architectural design and theory at Universität Innsbruck. Her research and design focus on spatial and temporal epistemologies at the intersection of architecture, urban design, technology, and science.
Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Acknowledgements 9
Untimely Architecture 11
Out of Key with the Times 35
Real Fictions 61
Architecture in the Time of a (Temporal) Collapse 81
As a Snake Sheds its Skin 103
Learning to "See" Like A Machine 121
Computational Architecture, Architectonic Models 139
Sublime Uselessness 161
Making the Donkey Drink Water, or the "Problem" of Stopping in the Digital Age 173
Depth in Aesthetic Perception 189
Virtualities of the Visible 213
Radical Acts in the Architectural Representation of Space 231
Spatial Fabulations and Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality 247
List of Figures 263
Contributors 267

The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the future, ensuring that the present is ubiquitous. While contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a transformative force, this book stresses the need to rethink today's complex temporal mechanisms through the notion of the untimely. This concept opens up a whole spectrum of possibilities to go beyond what seems predictable. The contributors to this book employ critical concepts and architectural design tools in order to offer experimental and speculative approaches for unknown futures of architecture.
  • Price: $60.00
  • Pages: 274
  • Publisher: transcript publishing
  • Imprint: transcript publishing
  • Series: Architecture
  • Publication Date: 22nd March 2022
  • Trim Size: 5.83 x 8.86 in
  • Illustrations Note: 110 ill., 46 col. ill.
  • ISBN: 9783837661118
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl (Dr.) teaches architectural design and theory at Universität Innsbruck. Her research and design focus on spatial and temporal epistemologies at the intersection of architecture, urban design, technology, and science.

Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Acknowledgements 9
Untimely Architecture 11
Out of Key with the Times 35
Real Fictions 61
Architecture in the Time of a (Temporal) Collapse 81
As a Snake Sheds its Skin 103
Learning to "See" Like A Machine 121
Computational Architecture, Architectonic Models 139
Sublime Uselessness 161
Making the Donkey Drink Water, or the "Problem" of Stopping in the Digital Age 173
Depth in Aesthetic Perception 189
Virtualities of the Visible 213
Radical Acts in the Architectural Representation of Space 231
Spatial Fabulations and Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality 247
List of Figures 263
Contributors 267